By Labelme - 02/01/2010 08:26 - United States

Today, I learned that instead of discarding expired products at my work, we change the label to make them 'expire' later. FML
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Starfire22 5

Ewww! That sounds like that's illegal to do...

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The_Disturbed 5

I say report them to whatever trading standards board you have in the US. That's illegal and if someone gets ill eating their food, they'll be able to sue. Big time.

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hippy_lady 4

I wish I knew who you were so I could report you.

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Thebearjew1991Xx 0

yes it's gross we all get that but obviously this person didn't know considering she just found out puls I know alot of groccery stores that do that especially viarta(sp?) my grandma Lives in Cali and bought meat from there that wasn't supposed to exspire for a month that had maggots in it

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J_Rodriguez112 0

where do you work ? because I do not wanna be the 1 to buy something that expired in 2009

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m1204 0

I hardly believe your story for the simple fact that expiration dates are stamped on the container or label to prevent tampering! A restaurant would not need to do this, as customers have no access to expiration date, although the health department would and any tampering with that would be a violation. As far as grocery stores, the write off is well worth throwing the bad stuff out. And the big question is why would they let everyone know they do this,when a call to the local health dept. is all it would take to shut it down.Nice try, you created chaos.

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52fremont 0

you should TOTALLY stop talking about things you know nothing about! Restaurants do have to label food; at least fast food places do. The container of tomatoes used for salads? Labelled. The lettuce prepared to go on burgers? Labelled. I used to do this at Jack in the Box and we did change labels (on the salads!)

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Kristoffer 35

FYL. That's not even close to legal.

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alissanicole 0

actually this happens all the time at restaurants..I've worked at starbucks, taco bell, and burger king and they've all done this..another thing that happens a lot at fast food restaurants is they drop your food on the ground while making it but still give it to you to eat..its gross but people don't even realize it

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m1204 0

Be careful in mentioning businesses by name...it could spell legal trouble!

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martic835 2

And that's why I refuse to eat at fast food restaurants unless I'm really, really high and don't care.

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laurabloodycasin 0

There's this wonderful thing called 'ServSafe' you follow it or get closed.

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falsesanity 0

ServSafe and SafeServ follow State Health code, most franchises or chains have there own codes to follow that are much more strict. So you could relabel foods to prevent yourself from getting in trouble with the company while following your State Health code with no legal issues at all.

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Ninjaface 0

Wait, the people at your work can keep things from expiring just by changing the label? That's amazing! In what other ways can you bend the spacetime continuum, because I'd like winter break to be a little longer.

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deng314 0

i used to work in a grocery store and i remember stories of fresh meat department managers who would remove expired meat packages off their shelve, take them to the back and repackage the meat with new dates. They would even go as far as turning over the meat so you could not see the darkened areas. Seriously gross. Its wrong to do, but people will do shady things when the pressure is on to reduce profit losses!

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bailo 0

yep i work somewhere where we do that.

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